Carrie Thorvig of Grand Rapids joined Heidi and J0hn for breakfast and hypnosis on What's For Breakfast. There's no way to know for sure, but if you say coffee to Heidi from now on, she might tweet like a bird. Carrie was on her way back home from early errands and ready to have an English muffin with peanut butter complete with butter underneath to keep things from getting all sticky. She did take time to recommend hypnosis and to call John out for letting a mouse run free in the KAXE studios.

Marshall Helmberger joins us on Friday mornings - today he talked about the recent storms, muskies as well as the corporation behind Polymet (proposed copper nickel mining in Hoyt Lakes) Glencore.

Representative Keith Ellison was visiting northern MN over the 4th of July holiday and stopped by KAXE to tell us why he is running for MN's Attorney General.

We continue our Strong Women series with Representative Sandy Layman (R) . Sandy lives in the Grand Rapids area and represents MN District 5b. In this interview we learn about the thread that ties Sandy's work in public service and in community through her work at the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce, Itasca Development Corporation, IRRRB and the MN House of Representatives. Sandy also tells us about her role as a caregiver to her husband, and the resources that have made it possible for her to

Stuart Lavalier spoke to us this week from the strawberry patch at his u-pick business-- Lavalier's Berry Patch and Orchard in Grand Rapids. It was June 27th, the morning of the first day of the 2018 strawberry season. When he picked up the phone, helpers were picking boxes of berries for customers who prefer to buy their berries ready-picked. The birds were singing. Anticipation was in the air. Stuart's been in the business a long time. He said that when he was growing up the strawberry plants

According to Mary Beth Pfeiffer, author of Lyme: The First Epidenic of Climate Change , the blacklegged tick and the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, Borrelia Burgdorferi , deserve our respect. "The ticks have amazing abilities. First of all, they wait forever on a little blade of grass, and there are so many out there that sooner or later one or two of them is going to get lucky and a mammal or a person will pass by. From 50' away, that tick can sense your breath--the carbon dioxide in your

Shawn Kiefer and Parker Bruns will compete in the USA Special Olympics July 1st thru 6th in Seattle, Washington. Shawn stopped by the KBXE studio to chat about how he's preparing. He was joined by Shannon Murray, Sports Program Associate for Bemidji Area Special Olympics , and Lisa Bruns whose son Parker Bruns is also a competitor. Downtown Bemidji is sending Shawn and Parker off to Seattle with a day of celebration tomorrow (Thursday, June 28). The public is invited to have coffee and donuts

Eli Sagor is an Extension Specialist with the University of Minnesota based at the Cloquet Forestry Center. Today he reminded us that carbon grows on trees! Eli will be at the #OnlyInMN monument celebration f or Bemidji tomorrow June 27th.

We care deeply about the natural world around us here at KAXE-KBXE. Every week we learn from our listeners about what they are noticing outside and every week our resident phenologist John Latimer assesses today's climate happenings with those in his 30+ years phenological data collection. Today, in our talkback segment, John Latimer takes listeners on a tour of the KAXE-KBXE Season Watch page on Facebook to share what some of our Seasonwatchers are dialoguing about. In John's full phenology

There must be a reason that the words heart, and hearth, vary by only one letter. Little Falls, Mn. writer, Jonathan Wichmann explores